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Inside the Helmet
Inside the Helmet
The Hidden Psychology of Football
Rishi Sukumar
What Fans Never See
Every Sunday, Monday and Thursday of every single week from September to February, millions...
A Skillet, Some Eggs, and a Story of Migration
I didn’t know what shakshuka was until my partner moved to Boston and convinced me to try a bite during brunch one weekend when...
Psychology’s Replication Crisis
One of the cornerstones of modern science is the criterion of replicability. Replicability is the idea that if a phenomenon is real, it should...
Why do I sneeze when I step out into the sun?
Have you ever stepped out into the sun after a long day of sitting inside and suddenly felt the urge to sneeze?
Usually, sneezing is...
An Infinitely Dimensional Orange: A Slice of Machine Learning
What does the Pythagorean Theorem have to do with machine learning? The Pythagorean Theorem is a formula to measure the hypotenuse of a triangle,...
‘IN Synch
Written by: Lauren Mellinger and Julia Raver
Every girl knows what it feels like during “that time of the month” – bad cramps, mood swings,...
Did the Covid Pandemic shock you? The next one is right...
Do you remember those early days of the Covid-19 Pandemic? Schools were shut down. Zoom meetings were the norm. Graduation parties, birthdays, and weddings...
The Science of Plan B
After Roe v. Wade was overturned this past summer, I saw a spark of online discussions about access to birth control, as well as...
The Sepsis Umbrella
When most people hear the diagnosis of sepsis, they think of one of two things: oh my god or…what the heck is that? However,...
ADHD, Aging, & Diagnosis
“ADHD is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders of childhood. It is usually first diagnosed in childhood and often lasts into adulthood.”
- Centers...